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I just read that St. John's has the only working Armillary Sphere on Earth. have you all checked it out?
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I've heard about it from our friend John Balwit, who may have some responsibility for it. Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 5:45 AM Prof David West <[hidden email]> wrote: I just read that St. John's has the only working Armillary Sphere on Earth. have you all checked it out? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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Perhaps the Armillary Sphere can be used to track the movements of Trump's new "Space Force", signed into law on December 20 as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. https://www.spaceforce.mil I am not making this up. On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 6:05 AM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Frank, are you all meeting this morning? Where do you meet now? On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 6:05 AM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Saveur. Where Galisteo merges with Cerrillos downtown. ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 9:21 AM Merle Lefkoff <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Start time? For how long? On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 8:41 AM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:
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There was a nice piece in the news the other day about this armillary sphere which seems like a very beautiful scientific artwork at St Johns.
I’d very much like to pay a visit and see this device, which, while it doesn’t contribute much scientifically to the astronomical community, it’s one heck of an artistic and historical project. I love the aesthetics of armillary spheres, and the visionary role they’ve played for so long, showing us our place in the heavens. I have a pet art project in mind called the “Galactic Observatory” that builds off this tradition, which is a galactic pointer that rotates slowly with the earth’s turning to constantly point at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, allowing us to orient ourselves to a larger scale. It’s the logical evolution from the geocentric to the heliocentric to the galactocentric reference frame. It was only just over 100 years ago that we discovered where we sit in the Milky Way, and hey, we’re not in the center of it all (and a good thing we’re not, too!) I would love to meet the folks responsible for creating the St John’s armillary sphere; maybe they’ll have an interest in helping see a next generation modern updated astronomical sculpture come to life too... -Jonathan Wolfe, Ph.D. Executive Director, Fractal Foundation Support our mission today and share the beauty of fractals: Next First Friday Fractals shows: Friday January 3 Fractals are SMART: Science, Math & Art! +1.505.489.3393
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In reply to this post by Merle Lefkoff-2
Start time 9:00. End time 11:15+- ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 9:48 AM Merle Lefkoff <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Thanks, Frank. I'd like to come next Friday. I'll come to Saveur. On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:17 AM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:
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We may be back to St John's then. I'll let you know Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 11:10 AM Merle Lefkoff <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Thanks. I have it on my calendar. On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 10:38 AM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:
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In reply to this post by Jonathan Wolfe
Jonathan, You might try to contact John Balwit as a starting point. (503) 583-2181 Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 9:58 AM Jonathan Wolfe <[hidden email]> wrote:
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